{"id":43568,"date":"2014-07-14T17:18:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T23:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/14\/americaball.html"},"modified":"2014-07-15T11:41:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T17:41:14","slug":"americaball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/14\/americaball.html","title":{"rendered":"AmericaBall!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">John Oliver on income inequality, &quot;class warfare,&quot; talent shows, and the estate tax. \u00a0Good, sadly illustrative stuff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080'>Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John illustrates wealth inequality via a lottery.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-video'><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LfgSEwjAeno' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/9axcTjs4Dmf' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Oliver on income inequality, &quot;class warfare,&quot; talent shows, and the estate tax. \u00a0Good, sadly illustrative stuff. 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